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So June 2017 is here and it’s usually that time of the year where various job vacancies are on the rise. Below are the latest African-related job listings that are currently live in London at the moment. It’s not just about interesting events; but also jobs. There are positions readily available for Swahili speakers, Business and Telecoms analysts, paralegals and creatives with African experiences, languages and interests. Please share if you for your benefit and to the benefit of others.

Involves the monitoring of open-source intelligence inputs, such as local print, televised, radio, online and social media, to collect risk relevant indicator events for Sub-Saharan Africa | Remote, part-time (2-2 .5 hours per day), paid role | Most suitable for a self-employed contractor | Under a contract renewed on a rolling basis

Qualifications

· The ideal candidate will be studying towards a Master’s degree or PhD in international politics, economics or related field, with a proven interest and knowledge of the region.

Must have: Previous research experience on Iran’s domestic and regional policies is preferred | · Fluency in English and French is essential for Francophone countries | · Fluency in English and Arabic is essential for Sudan | Fluency in English and Swahili (or other local languages) is essential for East African countries; Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Benin, Togo, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Botswana.

***Please provide your CV, a cover letter (in English) and a list of 10 key indicators of political or violent risks you think are worth monitoring for the countries you want to cover. Briefly explain why you think they are important and how you would go about monitoring them. Please make sure to also outline the countries you feel you’ll be the most comfortable covering.***

If you are interested in applying for this role, kindly send your CV to Julien Grossmann at julien.grossmann@ihsmarkit.com. Deadline for applications is 10/06/17.

You are a highly motivated individual who is excited about taking your passion for news to a growing technology start up. You are a team player and thrive in a fast paced, newsroom atmosphere where you can you utilize your expertise on Africa and how news and information eaks across the continent. In this role you will have your finger on the pulse of what moves Dataminr.< />< />Responsibilities< />

Lewisham Refugee & Migrant Network are currently looking for admin and reception volunteers able to commit for a minimum of two to three days per week. Based in our Lewisham office, the role involves reception duties, providing the first point of contact for all visitors to the building and taking initial enquiries, data entry onto our client database and assisting with filing and other administrative tasks.You will need to be highly organised with experience of working with computer packages.

We will provide supervision and training to suitable candidates.

Tasks include

Developing and maintaining our contacts database and files

Answering the phone

Booking appointments

Occasionally helping advisers with casework tasks

Handling clients’ enquiries over the phone or in person

Processing routine correspondence

Manage email correspondence

What Will You Gain from the Role?

A chance to make a difference and help an organisation working to support vulnerable people, working in an office environment within the charity sector, new experiences and skills with a small and friendly team.

You will be given support and training as well as a reimbursement for lunch (up to £4) and travel expenses.

Totally Legal are currently working with a leading City Practice on an opportunity for a bright Paralegal, that is fluent in Swahili, to join them on a short term basis to assist with a Document Review Project.

A successful candidate will have strong academics (minimum of a 2:1 in the LLB) and be fluent in Swahili. Although not essential you will benefit from prior document review experience.

The BBC World Service is expanding its multimedia operations in Africa by doubling the number of language services from six to 12 and investing in modern TV and Digital production facilities.

The Ideal Candidate:

A senior and creative leader you will have proven experience of leading sizeable teams through change, motivating and developing them along the journey. You will have knowledge and understanding of the digital media market in the region and demonstrable senior experience of journalism in the digital field and with strong digital production skills and the ability to spot gaps in the market to develop opportunities for the BBC.Fluent spoken and written English and knowledge of any of the following languages for Hausa, French, Pidgin, Yoruba or Igbo is desirable but not mandatory.

Global Career Company operates with a true entrepreneurial spirit, a young and dynamic business, providing recruitment and employer marketing services to over 500 blue chip multinational and regional clients across the African continent.

Desired Skills, Competencies & Experience

A proven track record in recruitment and account management in emerging markets (Africa in particular)

Ability to liaise with and influence all levels of management

International experience in African markets or experience managing clients in African markets.

Strong Commercial awareness, a structured and hands-on approach to sales and delivery

Experience working to and achieving demanding targets, ratios and SLAs and working to tight deadlines in a fast moving environment;

A delivery-focused and results-oriented individual

Excellent account management skills

Experience working to tight deadlines in a fast moving environment;

Experience of developing processes to improve outcomes;

Ability to liaise with and influence all levels of management & senior stakeholders;

Fitch Ratings are currently looking for an Analyst or Associate Director to join their Financial Institutions (“FI”) team to be based in London, focusing on the ratings primarily of banks in Africa and the Middle East. Candidates will be involved in the following activities:

Monitoring a portfolio of issuer ratings, including the preparation of rating committee documentation

Writing and publishing comprehensive rating reports on individual issuers (based on public information and management meetings with the rated entities)

Participation in credit rating committees for banks in their allocated region and other countries

Regular interaction with contacts at issuers and liaison with issuers’ senior management at rating meetings

Publication of sector-specific research and insightful commentary

Responding to external queries from investors, bankers and other fixed income market participants

The internship will focus on projects related to women’s rights issues in the Middle East and North Africa region. Some topics of focus will include migrant domestic workers from East Africa, violence against women, and sexual violence in conflict. The internship will consist primarily of small research assignments, legal research, data management and analysis, news monitoring, and drafting documents. Some translation assignments may also be included. Additional projects that match the intern’s interests and abilities may be assigned as they arise.

This internship is best suited for individuals interested in gaining experience within a small office of a large, well-organized, international non-profit organisation. Interns will build knowledge of the key women’s rights issues in the region and priority human rights issues for the organisation. Interns will gain skills in research methodology, advocacy and media monitoring.

Qualifications

Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic or Swahili are essential;

As a key market facing team, BBC World Service play an important role in providing insight into the latest media market developments and opportunities for BBC World Service English and Language Services. As Business Development Manager you will lead business development activities in Sub Saharan Africa.

Role Responsibility:

Reporting to the Head of Business Development, Africa; the successful candidate is tasked to actively pursue reach to drive digital partnerships for the BBC World Service in Sub Saharan Africa. You will seek out and secure multilingual digital content partnerships with established Sub Saharan African players; as well as new and innovative digital ‘start ups’. You will ensure any new and existing digital deals are optimised to deliver growth of the BBC World Service audience reach as well as commercial return where relevant. You will have an extensive knowledge of the BBC World Service digital offer – to be able to deliver effective pitches to potential partners.Actively contributing to the Business Development digital strategy to increase direct traffic through external partnerships, you will also provide guidance and advice to regional colleagues on digital deals. You will also help inform editorial product development which is of particular importance as the BBC World Service embarks on expanding output.

The Scientific Director position involves team leadership overseeing content development and strategic direction of a writing team.vYou are able to understand the broad context of a therapy area, scientific data and clinical practice – possibly across more than one account. Of key importance is your ability to effectively delegate to your team and to guide reports in developing their skills, through mentoring and reviewing output to add value and ensure scientific accuracy.

You will be expected to build, maintain, and lead scientific engagements with physicians, and effectively moderate client sessions.

Skills and abilities:

Strong leadership qualities, even when working under pressure, including: promoting team motivation, being and appearing to be in control, communicating company vision and culture, and having account strategic leadership within the context of writing abilities

Initiative, common sense and a high level of independence

Excellent organizational and time management skills, including when working under pressure

Advanced experience in writing across a range of medical communications media without direct supervision

A high degree of financial understanding and management

Proactive management of client business

Establishing and maintaining professional and productive client relationships

Alive and Kicking is a UK registered charity that establishes social enterprises in Africa. Their mission is to create ethical employment for communities in sub-Saharan Africa, help improve the health and quality of life of disadvantaged young people and enable children to exercise their right to play. They achieve these objectives by making sports balls in not-for-profit stitching centres in Kenya, Zambia and Ghana.

Launched in 2004, Alive and Kicking has grown from a single factory in Nairobi, to employing 150 people in fairly paid, ethical, full time jobs across Africa. They try to recruit people who have difficulty finding alternative work, such as those living with a disability, or poorly educated young people.

Purpose of the Role:

To drive the sustainable growth of Alive and Kicking as an international social enterprise

To take strategic and managerial leadership for Alive and Kicking in collaboration with the Boards of Directors of its operations

To take overall responsibility for income generation in the UK, lead by the Head of Fundraising

To manage the finances of Alive and Kicking in the UK and oversee the finances of the operations

To raise Alive and Kicking’s profile to ensure continued commitment of stakeholders and gain new financial support

Chief Risk Officer opportunity with the London subsidiary of a major international bank which focuses on Africa.

The role:

* Performing the Chief Risk function (SMF 4) and the execution of the PRA Responsibilities
* Complying with the FCA/PRA Individual and Senior Manager Conduct Rules
* Ensuring that all aspects of risk and control frameworks are operating effectively including:

– ensuring that these frameworks are maintained and updated as approved by the Board;

– making operative the risk controls required by the frameworks to remain within the Bank’s agreed risk appetite;

– compiling, assessing and reporting risk information to the CEO, the Board Risk Committee and the Board;

– ensuring that the Bank’s risk management framework complies with relevant legislation and regulation; and

This role will support the management of Sense International programmes in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and potentially new countries in the region in future, in close collaboration with the London-based Senior Programme Manager covering other parts of the world. You will be responsible for supporting East African country teams with programme, grant and financial management, resource mobilisation, programme innovation and expansion. Ideally you will also have the ability to work across the whole Sense International family as a specialist monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) adviser.

HireHand is looking for those interested to work in some of the most exciting independent food businesses in London. Our clients include innovative businesses ranging from pop-ups to fixed locations to corporate kitchens. We also have work at various events (such as film premieres, British Summer Time Festival and Glastonbury festival).

The work is very flexible and you can let us know on weekly basis when you can work. We also offer very competitive pay of £9.40-£10.40/hr depending on the job. This is a part-time temporary work.

Required skills

Positive attitude and passion for good food

Experience in working on a grill and in the kitchen

Ability to work in fast paced environment and under pressure

Good level of English

Rewards

Competitive hourly wage

Flexible working patterns

Experience working in various exciting settings and with various cuisines (e.g. Indian, Nigerian, American, British and more)

Opportunity to work with best independent food businesses in the city

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK | If you are interested, please apply here | Job Type: Part-time | Salary: £10.40 /hour

Exciting opportunity to join a growing emerging markets bank in London as their Director African Trade Finance Loan Distribution. The role will involve syndication and sale of corporate loans, trade related assets, forfaiting, structured finance, ECA based financing and political risk insurance.The Successful ApplicantCandidates Will Have

Target Malaria is a non-for-profit research consortium that is aiming to develop a novel vector control tool that will reduce the number of malaria transmitting mosquitoes in Sub-Saharan Africa, and therefore combat transmission of the disease. The project started over a decade ago with a funding from the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative and now receives core funding through a program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project has partnerships in 14 different institute, working in Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali & Uganda), the US, and Europe, bringing together a diversity of skill sets – molecular biologists, medical entomologists, population geneticists, protein engineers, social sciences researchers as well as risk, regulatory, project management and stakeholder engagement experts.

The post holder will have primary responsibility for ensuring that regulatory activities for development products are achieved according to expected objectives and agreed milestones. They will also provide regulatory intelligence, expertise and strategy in developing and supporting the dossiers for submission to regulatory authorities in the projects African partner countries.

The Role ED&F Man Capital Markets (“MCM”) is recruiting for a Credit Risk Officer to join their existing credit risk department and help support effective Credit Risk controls and provide Counterparty analysis for this fast-paced division of ED&F Man Group. The role will focus on MCM’s Frontier Markets FOREX business which has a majority client base domiciled on the African continent. The role will report to the Deputy Head of Credit Risk for the European Capital Markets Division.

Responsibilities:

The applicant will have at least 4 years of Credit experience gained within a financial institution, specializing in corporate and financial counterparties based on the African continent.

Highly numerate with excellent academic record and excellent organisational skills.

Strong analytical and IT skills are required (Excel VBA, SQL an advantage).

The role is demanding and the candidate must be able to adapt and prioritise as the business dictates. ? The role requires good communication skills and the ability to develop good relationships with the trading desks. The successful applicant will also display team skills, enthusiasm and the initiative to drive efficiency and change where required.

All applications need to be received by 6pm on Thursday 22 June 2017, by email to recruitment@savetherhino.org. All applicants will receive an email confirmation of receipt.

The Events Manager has a lot of autonomy in the role and we are therefore looking for someone who has experience of organising events, preferably in the charity sector. Although the post-holder works closely with all other members of the team at SRI, a great deal of initiative is required.

With so many events in the calendar, and with so much of SRI’s unrestricted income dependent on the successful delivery of events, the applicant must have very strong organisational, forward planning and multi-tasking skills.

Applicants should submit:

A CV, which should demonstrate the skills, aptitude and experience outlined in the Person specification, together with contact details and the names and addresses of two referees

A 1-2 page covering letter, which should say where you saw the advertisement and explain why you want this post

BBC are looking for a creative and motivated Sports Editor to lead a new Africa Sports Unit and launch new sports video and TV products for African audiences. You will need to have excellent knowledge of sport in Africa, global sport, particularly the Premiership and Athletics, and an understanding of what audiences are looking for in digital and social media sports coverage as well as a real nose for original, creative journalism. The challenge of the role is to develop a truly compelling multiplatform offer within in the constraints of the availability of rights issues. The role will work closely with Languages Sports Editor and sports specialists across the BBC, both domestic and in global news outlets.

Integrating existing datasets with third party sources of information when needed.

Supporting the development of predictive and prescriptive analytical tools using existing products or as part of the research and development group, internally.

Previous experience in a consulting environment would be useful, but the ability to understand business drivers and metrics and how data analysis can extract new insight from existing data is more useful.

The role will be based in London with some International travel required. The role can initially be undertaken on a flexible/ part time basis for the right applicant.

Qualifications

Africa Specialist Sales and Product Executive Skills:
Must have an insatiable passion for Africa, backed up with extensive first-hand travel experience there
Must have travel industry sales experience
Must be creative and imaginative
Must be a meticulous planner and a perfectionist
Must have loads of drive and enthusiasm
Must have a passion for providing exceptional service

If you are interested in the above position please apply to this advert, email your CV to or call Mark 02073971272

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A large global firm is seeking an EDD specialist for their African focussed division

An exciting Enhanced Due Diligence Analyst role has just become available at a leading financial services firm based in London. This is a great opportunity for someone who has an analytical mindset and an invested interest in the African region..

The primary responsibilities of the EDD Analyst will be:

To perform EDD investigations which provide effective identification and analysis of financial crime and reputational risks.

Research and analysis to enable review and assessment of high risk factors associated with the firm’s client review.

Production and review of EDD reports to present to senior stakeholders within the business.

Reporting and presenting and potential financial crime and money laundering risks to the business.

To be the EDD Analyst you will need:

A strong track record of working as a Case Manager in a Financial Crime Compliance team in a top tier banking environment or Consultancy Firm.

We Plug Good Music / WPGM LTD is a media, publishing and digital PR services company based in London. Their PR services arm functions within the digital music PR and social media marketing spaces in the UK and Africa, with a view to expanding into Europe and America, while continuing to build our digital music PR services/activities in the UK and Africa.

Small African Restaurant looking for experienced chef to work on full time basis as the head chef cooking traditional African dishes to be trained based on our receipt but Experience working at restaurant is essential.

Minimum requirement to work 5 days a week and salary will be based on experience for more information send cv as we holding interviews for immediate start.

The British Library is pleased to be able to offer two internship opportunities in the Library’s Asian and African Collections Department to candidates with degree-level knowledge of, or first-language proficiency in one of the priority languages identified below and a degree or equivalent in a subject relevant to the chosen theme.

EDITEC is a successful lottery and sports betting operator, currently managing 23 national divisions across Africa and beyond. The company is fast growing, has doubled in size over the last 3 years, and has plans for further expansion. The company is globally recognised as a start-up specialist for gaming operations in emerging markets. The culture is entrepreneurial and fun. They aim to work collaborative to create new opportunities and innovative ways to grow both as individuals and as a company.

The role: Working in the lottery team, this role is a crucial part of the development of the lottery business across our African operation.

Responsibilities:

Working with the Head of Lottery to drive new business for our lottery operations in Africa by presenting to gaming boards.

Negotiate winning deals with media companies such as broadcasters, publishers across Africa.

Maximising market share, winning new business.

Be highly visible within the marketplace and represent my client as best in class.

Be the expert on the lottery product to educate and mentor our commercial and operation managers in each country.

Regular travels across Africa.

Your profile:

Essentials: Solid Business Development experience | Natural entrepreneurial flair | Have a track record of working autonomously and be able to make own decisions | Ability to work in a hands on, demanding environment | History of success negotiating complex and international deals | Proven history of consistently exceeding targets within a highly competitive market place | Pro-active, fun and enthusiastic is a must | Interest of lottery, gaming and betting industry | Be happy to travel frequently to Africa | Fluent French

Desirable: Experience working within the lottery industry or the media industry & Experience of the African market.

The Pharo Foundation is a private foundation committed to the development of Africa. Their vision is an economically self-reliant Africa. Their mission is to facilitate economic independence of the African people through the promotion of sustainable livelihoods and job creation in Africa. They value sharing, passion, respect, humility and collaboration.

Required Qualities And Skills:

Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline.

A talent for logical thinking which supports the translation of complex ideas into practical programme concepts.

Team work that builds on colleagues’ knowledge and expertise to maximise learning, enhance programme teams’ skills and confidence and improve the quality of programming.

A self-starter with initiative and the ability to work alone when necessary.

Minimum five years’ experience in designing, implementing and managing at least two of the following: organisational learning, research, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment.

Ability to be creative and innovative in generating new ideas and undertaking research.

Experience in participatory programme development approaches and techniques.

Experience of implementing programmes in the field – ideally in Africa.

Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, interpretation and report write-up using appropriate computer software and other systems and tools.

An eye for detail and accuracy.

Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Passion for Africa and good familiarity with the continent.

Ability and willingness to travel often to Africa, sometimes at short notice

Are you up for an African adventure a private clinic in Gabon, a beautiful country along the Atlantic coast of Equatorial Africa is seeking an experienced specialty doctor in ophthalmology to work in a private clinic in Libreville, the capital by the sea.

Dolphin Care is currently seeking a committed Ophthalmologists Doctor with 4 years minimum experience. A commitment of 6 to 18 months is required to care for patients with eye conditions such as cataracts, myopia, and glaucoma. Excellent medical and surgical ophthalmology skills are essential. A competitive comparison salary with benefits such as free accommodation and car is offered.

The ability to speak French to a functional level is preferred. There will also be the opportunity to work on special projects with an NGO.

Dolphin Care is a leading medical recruitment agency and we have many other Doctors and Nurses vacancies around the UK. If this vacancy is of interest to you please contact the Dolphin Care desk to discuss.